This one was the big and wonderfull one i had been doing for
a freind Jose' as it was his request to do a portrait of
myself, and i also wanted to add in some other elves. I hope
he likes it it had taken me a month to complete... and my
computer crashed 4 times on the foreground scene with the
elves.
The background was done in Terregen + Poser + Celestia for
planet and rendered separately, but placed on a primitive
"box" in the final scene, like what they do backgrounds in
computer games.
The fore ground scene done in Poser.

Over here I really went to town with rendering shadows and
raytracing reflections, which is why my PC crashed 4
times...guess I reached the limit of my hardware... and i
know now what is the limit. Very simple compared to my other
work, but went into more detail with the available
simplicity.

Now the description of the image...

Well The Blue Moon is a moon orbiting a ringed gas giant
very much like Saturn.This Gas giant planet is called
Val'istar which orbits 2 suns, a binary star system. The
elves call the moon "Luin Ithil". This moon is a colony
world for the elves which borders the end of Elf space and
Dark Empire space, and is a resting place, as well as a
repair place for Damaged space craft and borg elves.

The reason why its named the blue moon is because it has a
dense atmosphere, with gravity slightly higher than that of
Earth and the elvin home world. The world does not really
have any oceans or seas, but it is a speckled combination of
land and water. It has no ice caps and a very humid
atmosphere. Since it has a 30% oxygen concentration, and a
25% carbon dioxide content, so the air is thick, and takes
while for the elves to adapt to the high doses of oxygen,
and CO2, so they spend most of the time sleeping in egg like
cocoons on the planet, and takes them a week to be weaned by
a genetic modified tentacle organism to breath the thick
moist atmosphere. Life on this planet is very slow and laid
back, and borgs and droids do all the space ship repair
works. For the mothership to land on the planet it takes
Blue moon rotation around the gas giant. The reason it has
to take time to land due to he fact the atmosphere is is
extremely flammable, so it hovers slowly to land, if it goes
any faster the atmosphere would ignite.

Here in the image you see me "Zana" and "Zanaria" her best
lover and Queen of the Elves in Elvin Space. Who have
already been through the atmosphere weaning process, with a
tailed elf, and some other elves. The elves to the right are
just coming out of the cocoon like structures.

When the elves arrived and took there first breath of the
atmosphere they passed out from the intensity. They were
carried by the local elves or fairies to the strange homes
grown on this world. Each home has about 4 to 10 weaning
cocoons. Elves don't believe in destroying vegetation for
homes, they create there homes by genetically modifying some
of the vegetation to grow into homes, and in time, they grow
bigger, and bigger, able to accommodate more elves.
Eventually at a certain age, the elf home becomes "self
aware" and be able to genetically modify itself and invent
new things to host the elves on a symbiotic basis, providing
food, communications and more, such as the weaning cocoons
for example.

The local elves and fairies carry them to some of the homes
which have space to accommodate more elves, and are dropped
in the entrances near the cocoons. The cocoons open up, and
an array of tentacles pic and drag the passed out elves into
them, selecting 2 to three elves per cocoon. The tentacles
connect to the elves, and envelope them in a slimy
substance. They sleep like , that and when its time for them
to leave, the elves inside undergo intimate and exhausting
movements with the tentacles and each other, this is to get
there muscles used to the high oxygen concentration
absorption. The exhausted, and locked in intimacy elves are
then released slowly and gently into the pools by the
tentacles.. and get to meet other elves.. and spend the days
in the sun swimming, and having fun, while they watch there
mothership being repaired and upgraded. When its ready, they
get weaned back to a less dense atmosphere and then, they
will be beamed inside the mother ship, before the slingshot
around the gas giant into warp speeds. Some may stay and
remain on this thick aired world, some locals may join in
the quest.. fairies are un-affected to the atmospheric
change, and adapt quickly, and find it quite enjoyable, less
wing flapping, and more gliding when flying.